[Novalug] gnome vs. KDE

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Wednesday 10 June 2009 1:44:24 pm jecottrell3 at comcast.net wrote:
> Big Scary Mess? How about "Mess of Gratuitous Changes" or "Reduced 
Functionality Where I Can't Find Anything"?
> 
> I think most users of KDE3 would agree. Several have said as much on this 
list.
> 
> But this is a largely subjective area.

Sure, things moving is disorienting, but KDE4 seems more new-user friendly 
than KDE3 was.  I'm happy to see that the stuff inside the Settings dialogs are 
now arranged logically and have decent separation.  KDE 3 apps usually made me 
gape at those dialogs trying to figure out what it was asking...often giving 
many options that have no explanations at all, and at that as a large 
collection of radio buttons instead of a single drop-down.  Actually...*looks* 
no, that set of 8 radio buttons (I thought the max was like 5 before it goes 
to drop-down?) is still in KMail.  When staying outside the Settings areas, 
fine, whatever, but my issue has always been with the Settings areas being 
difficult to parse quickly.  Well...and with thinking Qt3 was ugly...

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
apt-get moo
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